749 749 Found Leaking Oil From Front / Horizontal Head Area

Cheapest shit on the planet to outsource with the biggest profit margin to flog on. Or is that being too cynical ? Andy

 

No reason not to look around, they're only O-rings! Even Ducati aren't stupid (or vain) enough to use 'special' sizes if there's a commercially available one...

 

Mine came as 'samples' from a fasteners supplier to work, which must mean they are available off the shelf.

 

May as well whilst the cover’s off if they’ve been leaking

I was referring to Nasher’s post (I think), sorry for any confusion.

As long as they’re oil proof they’ll be fine, not all ‘rubber’ is; Viton is just a brand name.

 

I can confirm that the Cam Covers on my 999 have screws to hold the Coils in place.

But, that isn't a very helpful thing to post as they did have studs, one of which sheared off and had to be drilled out.
At which point I put Stainless inserts in both and used stainless Cap head screws to hold the coils in.

From memory the holes in the Cam covers were Blind, so I don't think they could leak Oil, but we all know things like that appear to change with Ducati at their will.

 

youre better of removing the rad and bleeding/topping up when done

 

yep just the feed and return for the rad but get them bunged up unless you want to drain down and refil the entire system - not hard just takes time to do it properly esp if you want to flush it first

 

While you have the oil rad. off I'd take the opportunity to flush it through with petrol.

 

he wont need to remove the oil cooler to access teh cam cover